The Woman Clothed With The Sun

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At the close of chapter 10, we learned that John was told to prophesy about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.

Chapter 11 began this prophecy, which now continues into chapter 12. Here we will learn more about Israel, Jesus, Satan, the archangel Michael, and the inhabitants of the earth.

Most bad things that happen do so because the world is caught up in a great spiritual struggle between good and evil, which is sometimes called the Conflict of the Ages.

It’s a spiritual struggle between God and Satan that will intensify on earth at the end of the age.

Jesus clearly taught that it will be worse than anything that’s happened on earth before.

This great spiritual struggle involves a woman (Israel), a dragon (Satan), a child (Jesus), and the remainder of the woman’s offspring (Christians).

Jim Combs - The reader’s attention is focused on the dragon’s efforts to thwart the birth of the “manchild,” Jesus, who is to rule all nations with a rod of iron (see Psalm 2:7–9 and Revelation 19:15).

The Woman Clothed With The Sun

I. The First Great Sign from Heaven

Revelation 12:1 NKJV

1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.

The symbols in this first sign take us back to the Old Testament to one of the dreams* of Joseph*.

Joseph’s father, a man named Jacob, interpreted the dream like this:

the sun represented himself (Jacob, whose name was later changed to Israel),

the moon represented his wife (whose name was Rachel),

and the crown of twelve stars represented their twelve children (the twelve tribes of Israel).

This family was the beginning of the nation of Israel.

Notice that the three symbols in Joseph’s dream (the sun, the moon, and the twelve stars) are all associated with this woman in chapter 12.

She is clothed with the sun (a symbol of Israel), has the moon (a symbol of Rachel)

under her feet, and has a crown of twelve stars (a symbol of the twelve tribes of Israel) on her head. This woman represents the nation of Israel at its beginning.

Harper’s Bible Dictionary Historians see in Jacob, who was renamed “Israel” after his experience wrestling with an angel (Genesis 32:28; 35:10), the personification of the national Israel.

Charles H. Dyer - In the Apostle John’s vision the woman clothed with the sun, the moon, and the twelve stars represents the nation of Israel.

II. A Nation in Travail

Revelation 12:2 NKJV

2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.

Verse 5 of this chapter tells us that Israel is pregnant with a male child, who will rule all the nations.

Her pregnancy is a reference to her condition just before the birth of Jesus.

John says she cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.

Before Christ’s birth, Israel was a captive nation to the Roman Empire. She had to submit to Roman leaders, pay Roman taxes, and obey Roman laws.

She was a nation in travail.

N. W. Hutchings - In the Old Testament it was prophesied that the Messiah would be born of a virgin; what town He would be born in; what tribe He would come from; how He would grow from a child to manhood; that He would make the blind to see, the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear, and the lame to walk; how and why He would die; and that He would be raised from the grave. Yet, Israel never knew or recognized Him as the Christ.

The question this morning is “do you recognize him”

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John 3:16 NKJV

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

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1. Lord I believe that Jesus is the son of God, and that He died On the cross for my sins and His resurrection from the dead gives me eternal life. I asked forgiveness of my sins, and I Except Jesus as my Lord and Savior. In his name I Pray, amen.

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Proverbs 4:7 NKJV

7 Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.

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Revelation 22:20 NKJV

20 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

Numbers 6:24–26 NKJV

24 “The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; 26 The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” ’

Jude 24–25 NIV

24 To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— 25 to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.